Merlin Hanauer is an assistant professor of economics at Sonoma State University, where he studies the impacts of protected areas on socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. For his work on this subject, Hanauer received the 2011 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize, which is awarded annually by PNAS to recognize recently published papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality.

Chase Mendenhall is a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Stanford University. He explores the tradeoffs between the conservation of biodiversity and farming by closely monitoring bird and bat populations that inhabit farmland in Costa Rica.

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